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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2021 12:40:38 GMT
A Great Darkness is spreading over E-Space. Entropy increases. In search of a last exit to anywhere, the TARDIS arrives on the power-less planet of Apollyon, where the scientist Pallister guards the only way out – a mysterious portal. But the portal needs power to open, and the only power Pallister can draw on is the energy contained within the molecular bonds of all living tissue...
The Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough soon learn that neither Pallister nor his ally, the space pirate Captain Branarack, will stop at murder to ensure their escape. But they're not the only menace on Apollyon. The Sandmen are coming – creatures that live on the life force; that live on death.
Death is the only way out into N-Space. Death, or sacrifice.
But whose death?
Whose sacrifice?
its great being able to skip from the events of Prisoners of Fate-Jonathan Morris Ending straight to the next part in Adric timeline ,one month for him,years for the Doctor and his Team.I have always had a fondness for the cover of this,suitably eerie and un nerving.I wasn’t a great fan of the first story of the new E-Space trilogy but enjoyed the final two.This tale was unusual for the Doctor /Tegan/Turlough/Nyssa narrating some of the tale but under the circumstances of which the tale is being told it is in no way distracting.I don’t put in spoilers as you never kno who hasn’t heard but this definitely worked for me.
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Post by slithe on Oct 31, 2021 11:46:11 GMT
I really liked this (and the previous instalment - Equilibrium). I usually take this as the starting point of the better run of Davison adventures and a distinct improvement on some of the earlier releases.
The narrative of this is great - splitting into four parts is a unique way of story telling. The dark, decaying atmosphere works well here on audio and makes for quite a steam-punk image of the E-Space world.
I always got a subtle dig at politics at the time - Equilibrium and 'Balancer' always rang of George Osborne, the decay in this one always made me envisage the politics of austerity hitting ordinary people (with the toffs in the castle escaping). Whether that was intentional or not, I am not sure. Certainly, the theme is picked up again in The Peterloo Massacre.
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